James Asmus is a writer, actor and comedian known for his affiliation with such theaters as The Annoyance and the sketch group Hey You Millionaires, and for his work writing comic books such as Quantum and Woody, Thief of Thieves and Gambit.

Career

Asmus has written several plays for both the Annoyance Theater and The New Colony theater group in Chicago. The plays he has written include Love Is Dead (The Annoyance), Hearts Full of Blood (the New Colony) and Amelia Earhart Jungle Princes (The New Colony). Both Love is Dead and Hearts Full of Blood received remounts in the New York Fringe Fest, winning awards for Outstanding Music & Lyrics[1] and Outstanding Achievement in Playwrighting[2] respectively.

Asmus is currently most prolific as a comic book writer,[3] writing such comics as Gambit for Marvel Comics, Thief of Thieves for Image Comics, and Quantum & Woody for Valiant Entertainment.

Awards and nominations

Bibliography

Marvel Comics

Image Comics

Valiant Comics

DC Comics

BOOM! Studios

IDW Publishing

ONI Press

Dark Horse Comics

Insight Editions

References

  1. ^ "2008 Fringe Awards", [1], Aug 25, 2008
  2. ^ "2010 Fringe Awards", [2], Aug 30, 2010
  3. ^ "The Annoyance Theatre - Chicago Stage Review". chicagostagereview. Retrieved 24 September 2010.
  4. ^ "Best bets".
  5. ^ "2009 Best of Chicago", [3], May, 2009
  6. ^ "Veritas, Twentieth Century Way and Jurassic Parq Win Fringe Excellence Awards - Playbill.com". www.playbill.com. Archived from the original on 2010-09-04.
  7. ^ "Shortlist 2014".
  8. ^ "2014 Final Ballot | Harvey Awards". Archived from the original on 2014-07-20. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
  9. ^ "2015 Harvey Awards Nominees Announced". 14 July 2015. Archived from the original on 15 July 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2015.

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Preceded byDaniel Way & Christos Gage Astonishing X-Men writer 2011 Succeeded byGreg Pak
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